Benjamin Butterworth (abt. 1736 - abt. 1801)

Born about 4 Feb 1736 in St. George Parish, Baltimore, Harford, Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Clement) Butterworth — married about 1768 in Virginia

Descendants

Died about Sep 1801 at about age 65 in Campbell County, Virginia

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Biography

Benjamin Butterworth was born in 1736. He is the son of Isaac Butterworth and Jane Wheeler. He married Sarah Hoskins on July 12, 1779 in Baltimore, Maryland. ^[1] He passed away in 1801.

Slaves

A Benjamin Butterworth of Campbell County freed a slave named Sall Black in 1791.^[2]

I Benjamin Butterworth Jr. of Campbell County being possesst of a negroe girl named Sall Black aged nine years & Six months do for myself & my Heirs, Release unto the said Sall Black all Claim or protention [protestation?] of Claim whatsoever or to any Property She may acquire after arriving to the Age of Eighteen years which will Happen in the Ninth Month One thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety-Nine In witness whereof I have Hereunto Let my Hand & Seal this 31st day of the 3rd Month 1791.

Witnesses: Micajah Davis & William Davis, Christr Johnson

Benjamin was born in 1736. He passed away in 1801.

The Will of Isaac Buttworth, father of Benjamin Butterworth

• Maryland, Register of Wills Books, 1629-1983, Vol. 1: p.369, Isaac Butterworth; FHL microfilm. Registrar of Wills in various county offices throughout Maryland. FHL digital images, 186 digital folders. Family History Library, Salt Lake City Utah.
• In the Name of God. Amen. I, Isaac Butterworth of Baltimore County in the province of Maryland, planter, being in perfect sence and sound of memory thanks be to the Almighty God for the same and knowing the uncertainty of this Transitory World do make and ordain this my last will and Testament. Vizt first, I Recommend my soul to God who gave it to me and to Jesus Christ who Redeemed it and to the holy Ghost who sanctified it looking through the meritorious deth and profsion of Jesus Christ my Savior to have a free pardon and forgiveness for all my Sins and my Body to be buried decently for a Christian burial at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter nominated and as touching such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with after my just Debts and funeral Charges are paid I give and bequeath as followeth.
• Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my loving wife two Hundred Acres of Land called Isaac and John's Lott with my plantation I now live on containing one hundred and Eighty Acres and Twenty acres adjoining being part of a Tract of Land called Uncles good will to be laid out at the Discretion of Thomas Wheeler and Leonard Wheeler and after her decease to fall to my Son Benjamin Butterworth his heirs or assigns for Ever.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Son Isaac Butterworth all that part of land Uncles Good will lying Between Thomas Run and the main Rhode that now goes through the plantation with the improvements and all apportainances thereunto to him his Heirs or assigns for Ever.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my two Daughters Mary and Elizabeth the Remainder part of that Tract of Land called Uncles good will lying on the north Side of Thomas Run to be equally divided between them to them their heirs or assigns for Ever.
• Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Charity Butterworth the Remainder part of that Tract of Land called Unles good will lying between the main Rhode and the Tobacco grounds Branch with all appurtenances thereunto to her her heirs or assigns for Ever.
• Lastly I do make and ordain my whole and Soul Executors of this my last will and Testament my beloved wife Jane Butterworth and Isaac Butterworth Revoking all other wills and Testaments heretofore made by me in witness I have thereunto Set my Hand and Seal this 14th Day of January Anno Domini 1746. Item. I further give and bequeath unto my son Isaac my Rifled Gun as a Legacy with a young bay mare. Item and further my will is that in case any of my childrens land should be deficient that the other should or shall bare an equal part of the same at the rate of Twenty five pounds Sterling a Hundreds.
• Isaac Butterworth {seal}
• Signed Sealed and delivered pronounced and Declared as his last will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers
• Samuel Gilbert
• Edward Flanagan
• Samuel Webster
• February 13th 1746 Comes Samuel Gilbert, Edward Flanagan and Samuel Webster, the three subscribing witnesses to the within will, and made oath on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God that they Saw the Testator Isaac Butterworth Sign and Seal the same and heard him publish it to be his last will and Testament, that at the time of his doing so he was to the best of their apprehension of Sound and disposing mind and memory and that they Subscribed their Respective names to the said will as Evidences, in the presence of the Testator and at his Request. Sworn to before …
• Thomas White, Deputy Commissary, Balt. County
• Notes by Cathi (Clements) Gross, Those Mentioned in Will of Isaac Butterworth:
• 1. Thomas Wheeler
• 2. Leonard Wheeler
• 3. My son Benjamin Butterworth
• 4. My son Isaac Butterworth
• 5. My Daughter Mary
• 6. My Daughter Elizabeth
• 7. My Daughter Charity
• 8. My Wife Jane
• Others Mentioned:
• 1. Samuel Gilbert
• 2. Edward Flanagan
• 3. Samuel Webster

• Isaac Butterworth Sr., father of Benjamin Butterworth, husband of Elizabeth Clement: 1770 - Deed Benjamin BUTTERWORTH to Henry GREEN, dated 7 Sep 1770 Baltimore County, MD, Liber A.L. No. B, 1770-1771, pp. 469-471 Transcript by Marna L. Clemons, 30 October 2002
• Benjamin Butterworth } Deed John G. L[anos] Lott 140 acres To } Unkles Goodwill 20 acres Henry Green } Maryland This Indenture made this Seventh Day of September in the year of our Lord God one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Between Benjamin Butterworth of Bedford County in the Province of Virginia of the one Part and Henry Green of Baltimore County of the other Part Witnesseth that the said Benjamin Butterworth for and in Consideration of the sum of one hundred & one Pounds five Shillings Current Money of Pennsylvania to him in hand passed or Secured to be passed by the said Henry Green the Receipt whereof the said Benjamin Butterworth hath Granted Bargained Sold Aliend and Confirmed and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Sell Alien & Confirm unto the said Henry Green his heirs & Assigns forever part of A tract of Land Called John G. L[anos] Lott, originally on the tenth Day of july 1724 Granted unto A certain Isaac Butterworth of Baltimore County for one hundred & Eighty acres as by patent Relation thereto had may more fully appear Lying and being in Baltimore County Beginning at the End of the West Line of a tract of Land Called John G. L[???] Lott and runing thence North three Degs East one hundred and Seventy four perches to a tract Land Called unkles Goodwill thence bounding on unkles Goodwill Aforesaid West by South one hundred & forty perches then South three Degs West Two hundred & Six Perches thence along the Giving Line North Sixty Six and a half Degs East Fifty Eight perches untill it intersects a tract of Land Called Howards Lott and then bounding on said Land North two Deg.s East one hundred & forty Seven perches Still bounding on on said Said Land South South East one hundred and thirty three perches to the Aforesaid Giving Line and thence by [???] Line to the Beginning Containing and laid out for one hundred and Forty Two acres more or Less Togther with twenty acres of Land being part of a tract of Land Called unlkes Goodwill as has already been laid off by Tho[nin] Wheeler Agreeable to the last will and Testament of Isaac Butterworth Sr deceased father to the said Benjamin Butterworth And all Reversion & Reversions Remainder & Remainders whatsoever To have & To hold the aforesaid Bargained Land and premises and every part & parcel thereof unto the said Henry Green his heirs & Assigns forever And the aforesaid Benjamin Butterworth for himself and his heirs the aforesaid Land & Every part thereof against him & his heirs & assigns & Against all others Claiming from or under him will for Ever warrant and Defend In Witness whereof the said Benjamin Butterworth hath hereunto set his hand & Seal the Day and year first above Written Between the Seventeen and Eighteen Lines is interlined with the words and Testament Between the Nineteenth & twentieth Lines is interlined with the words Assigns before the Sealing of these Presence Signed Sealed & Delivered in the Presence of us}
• Benj. Butterworth
• William Young junr.
• Wm. Godgrace
• Reced of the within named Henry Green one hundred & one pounds five Shillings Current Money of Pennsylvania being the Consideration of the within [??] Land & Premisses this 7th Day of Sept. 1770
• Witness
• Aquila Hall
• Benj. Butterworth
• Memorandum That on the 7 Day of Sept. 1770 Came before us two of his Lordships Justices of the Peace for Baltimore County the within Named Benjamin Butterworth and acknowledged the within mentioned Instrument to be his Act and Deed & at the same time Came Elizabeth this wife of the sd. Benj.a Butterworth who being Privallly Examined out of the hearing of her sd. husband freely and [??] acknowledged her Right of Dower to the within land & Premises According to the act of Assembly in that Case made & Provided [??] Aquila Hall Reced 29 September 1770 Six Shillings & Seven Pence Sterling Alienation Fine on the within Land for the use of Lord Baltimore by order of his Agent [G]an [B]owly Recorded the 4th day of October 1770 and Examined by A. Lawson Cl }
• Note by Cathi (Clements) Those mentioned in Deed.
• 1. Benjamin Butterworth, of Bedford Co., VA
• 2. Henry Green, of Balitmore Co., Maryland
• 3. Isaac Butterworth, of Baltimore Co., Maryland ( Lott, originally on the tenth Day of july 1724 Granted unto A certain Isaac Butterworth of Baltimore County_
• 4. William Young, Jr.
• 5. Wm. Godgrace
• 6. Aquila Hall
• 7. Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Butterworth, The right to Dower

Sources

1. ↑ "Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NV-5BW : 11 February 2018), Benjamin Butterworth and Sarah Hoskins, 12 Jul 1779; citing Baltimore, Maryland, reference p 14 # 168; FHL microfilm 13,693.
2. ↑ CWF Rockefeller Library Special Collections. SCMS2001.20 p1-2. Transcription and images of documents at Digital Library, Manuscripts, Colonial Williamsburg website. Accessed Mar 14, 2016.

• 1781 - Military - Virginians in the Revolution - Benjamin Butterworth, Lieut., Bedford Co., Mil., rec. Sept. 24 1781.